A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing his new travel ban against a Syrian family looking to escape their war-torn homeland by fleeing to Wisconsin. The ruling likely is the first by a judge since Trump issued a revised travel ban on Monday, according to a spokesman for the Washington state attorney general, who has led states challenging the ban. US district judge Michael Conley set that challenge aside after a federal judge in Washington state blocked the entire Trump travel order. Judge Conley granted that request, saying there were daily threats to the Syrian man’s wife and child that could cause “irreparable harm”. Trump issued an executive order in January banning travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries, including Syria, from entering the US.

Source: The Guardian March 11, 2017 03:11 UTC